shoveling snow
At about 10am the snow was very wet and heavy. I have a push shovel about 28 inches wide, plastic with a metal strip along the edge. It was very hard to push the wet stuff, I couldn't do much more than about 4 feet till the shovel was full and I couldn't get it going any more. The wheelie shovel that Elizella has, I think would allow me to push longer. I wondered when I read about this wheelie shovel thing on Amazon dot com how hard it would be to do that flip thing at the end of the push run, and just as Elizella said, when the pile of snow is too high you still need to lift the new snow up and over the top of the snow hill. I have a long driveway with no place along the long run to put the snow. There's a strip about 18 inches wide along the foundation of the house that I wouldn't want to pile too high with snow for fear of it leaking into the basement when it melts; The other side is my nice neighbors' driveway so I don't want to pile it there. When I practiced on the first snow, the light fluffy one, I started shoveling in the middle of the driveway and pushed half of it into the back yard, and the other half into the little front yard. That's still the best way to do it, but this heavy wet stuff won't push so far. And the pile in the back yard is getting to be about three feet tall already.